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Kevin Murphy of Reuters reports: Elsie Eiler is the most admired person in Monowi, Neb. She is also the smartest, wealthiest, best-looking and youngest.
"And the oldest," she is quick to add.
Rick Wilking / Reuters
Elsie Eiler poses with the town population sign outside of the village of Monowi, Nebraska on April 28, with the abandoned town grain elevator in the background. Eiler is the person living in Monowi making it the only incorporated town, village or city in the United States with only one resident.
When you are the only resident of a community, every title fits.
Eiler, 77, is the lone inhabitant of Monowi, a village in northeast Nebraska. That is unique, according to new 2010 U.S. Census data, which indicates Monowi to be the only incorporated town, village or city in the country with only one resident.
Rick Wilking / Reuters
A 1908 photo of the town of Monowi.
Monowi had two people in 2000, the census showed, but the other one was Eiler's husband, Rudy, and he died in 2004.
"We probably have the record by going down in population 50 percent," Eiler quipped. "I chose to stay here after my husband died. It's home."
Rick Wilking / Reuters
Abandoned Louisa Street in Monowi is seen completely grown over with vegetation on April 28. At its peak in the 1930s the town had 150 residents but after the railroad left it began to decline.
Eiler lives in a mobile home a half-block from the only business in town -- the Monowi Tavern. This is convenient because Eiler owns and operates the tavern. She and her husband bought the place in 1971 and she is there 12 hours a day serving drinks and food. Eiler also runs the town library, a tiny building jammed with 5,000 books that is dedicated to Rudy, a devoted reader.
Rick Wilking / Reuters
An abandoned building that was once a general store leans into trees as it slowly decays in Monowi on April 27. The general store closed when World War II started and the owner moved out of town to serve on the draft board.
You can read photographer Rick Wilking's reflections on his trip to Monowi on the Reuters blog.
NBC's Bob Dotson reports from Monowi in June, 2005.


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You are where you eat: McDonald's Japan sets prices by region
According to retail marketing research firm Soft Brain Field, McDonald's is overwhelmingly the most popular fast food in Japan, with 68 percent of survey respondents saying they patronize the American hamburger chain regularly. When asked which fast food they like the most, the answer for 33 percent is also McDonald's, with Mos Burger second at 25 percent and Mister Donuts third at 17 percent. Forty-two percent of McDonald's users patonize an outlet once a month, and 29 percent do so two or three times amonth, more often for lunch (43 percent) than dinner (29 percent).
Why do they prefer McDonald's? The most common answer is that it's inexpensive and they can order as little as possible, meaning they can go there when they're not in the mood for a full meal.
The main underlying attraction of fast food is predictability. People who patronize national or international chains know what to expect in terms of quality and, more significantly, price. They probably think that prices are uniform from one outlet to another. The British newsweekly The Economist exploits and reinforces this perception with its occasional Big Mac Index, which analyzes relative values of national currencies by comparing the prices of Big Macs in all countries using the assumption that the value of a Big Mac is uniform.
However, if you go to McDonald's American home page, prices are not listed, and if you do a web search you find that prices seem to vary slightly from one state or city to another, though it isn't clear for what reason. Some people seem to think it has to do with differences in wages or local taxes or the fact that some stores are franchises while others are corporate-owned, but according to a recent article in Forbes, production costs have no impact on McDonald's pricing, only competition. McDonald's sets prices according to what the company reasonably believes it can get for its products in a given market at a desirable volume.
McDonald's Japan also does not list prices on its home page, but it is fairly well known that prices differ from one outlet to another. These prices are not set by the outlets themselves. They are set by the headquarters, and on Sept. 10 the company announced that it was expanding the range of prices on its menu as well as increasing prices by as much as ¥50 per item. Since last year, the company's profits have been dropping and it has pinpointed outlets that McDonald's believes "can absorb price increases" without undermining its loyal customer base.
McDonald's Japan first set up regional price schedules in 2007 by dividing Japan into six zones. Under the new system there will be nine zone categories, but these zone categories are not necessarily prefecturally-based. Urban outlets within a prefecture will have higher prices than suburban or rural outlets. Realistically, this means there will be seven different prices for a Big Mac, depending on the zone, ranging from ¥310 to ¥390, up from four different prices ranging from ¥290 to ¥340.
The highest prices will, of course, be in Tokyo. There is one zone within central Tokyo, made up of 10 outlets, that boasts the highest prices in Japan, and the overall price scheme has been formulated to support urban outlets, which serve the largest cross-section of customers. Rents and other overhead in the centers of large cities are multiplicatively greater than they are in the boonies, though prices are not multiplicatively different. The largest gap in prices between zones is ¥80, up from ¥50 before the changeover. Unaffected will be the prices for promotional loss leaders, like the "¥100 Mac" and Chicken Crisps, not to mention certain meal sets. In a sense, the countryside is helping support city folks' fast food habits.
According to the Asahi Shimbun, the strategy is simply to maximize profits and has nothing to do with regional wage demands, local taxes or cost-of-living conditions. The company tested the new pricing system last April in a select number of outlets and determined that the number of patrons did not change when prices went up slightly. Overall, about 40 percent of the menu items will be affected by the price changes.
McDonald's predicts that the price increases will boost its profits by 1 percent, which doesn't sound like much but with an outfit as huge as McDonald's that should amount to billions of yen. In any case, the lower yen has increased the price of imported ingredients, particularly meat and potatoes.

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Aquila RED SERIES® Tenor Ukulele Strings SET OF 4 AQ87U
Fitting a quality set of Ukulele Strings handmade in Italy by Aquila Corde Armoniche is still the easiest and cheapest way to improve your ukuleles Tone and Playability.
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RED SERIES® sets provide superior performance over traditional strings. A more rounded less bright tone than the White Nylgut or Super Nylgut strings. A Softer feel under your finger tips too.
Aquila's revolutionary new approach — unique to Aquila — changes the specific weight of the material, increasing it progressively to leave the gauge almost unchanged.
You never heard a sound like this before, simply because before it did not exist.
A unique feeling and a strong, consistent sound. Until now, it was necessary to increase the gauge of a string for it to produce a Fuller Bassier Jazzier Tone. But increasing the string's diameter also increases internal dampening. That makes the string less bright, less responsive and more muffled; the thicker the string, the duller the sound. NOT ANY MORE with the Red Series.
The result is amazing: instruments sound brighter, more powerful and more responsive through the entire range of the fret board. The strings also maintain their intonation better, because thicker strings need to be fretted harder, pulling them further out of tune.
RED SERIES® sets provide superior performance over traditional strings for musicians who love bright sounds and powerful voicing across the full scale of the instrument.
In the manufacturing process of our Red Series strings we use different percentages of metal powder to optimise each string's performance within the set. Because of this, the colour varies slightly with each string in a set of Reds.
This is not a production problem. It is so each string produces the sound you expect from Aquila Reds!
Density is in fact the secret of quality sound in a low string and Aquila are happy to announce that they managed to overcome this difficult technological challenge (tried by many others but without success).
Now, with Aquilas RED SERIES® strings you can finally tune your ukulele to Low G with the certainty of powerful sound quality and a superior intonation across the frets that is fully integrated with that of the upper treble strings.
The technical solution adopted was firstly to make the Nylgut elastic and then add red copper powder in order to increase the density to about twice that of standard white Nylgut.
Color: red-brown
Surface: slightly rough; this texture has eliminated the squeak that sometime occurs with the Nylgut strings.
Elasticity/Elongation: consistent with white Nylgut!
Performances: better than the first elastic version! They do not break under tension providing rapid, stable tuning!
Intonation: accurate past the 12th fret
Pressing the string firmly down on the frets does not cause the note to sharpen.
It is not necessary to file the nut slot wider to accommodate our RED SERIES® string.
Density: about twice than standard white Nylgut.


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Symantec this week announced two new data encryption options, one that is file-based encryption for use with Dropbox, and the second that works as an extension to the AppleiOS mail client to encrypt and decrypt documents.
Symantec Mobile Encryption for iOS works with Apple tablets and smartphones, and will be available in January, according to Tim Matthews, Senior Director, Product Marketing in the Symantec division, which continues to develop encryption products based on technology acquired in the PGP Corp. acquisition two years ago.
The second product to be out is Symantec File Encryption for Dropbox, which lets companies ensure that any file saved and stored to the Dropbox cloud-based file storage service will be encrypted.
"The company sets the policy," said Matthews, noting there's a lot of concern in the corporate world about how the security of files left in cloud-based file sharing services such as Dropbox.
The encryption for Dropbox files can also be used without setting a group policy as well. Symantec may also develop something similar for other cloud-based services, but the popularity of Dropbox prompted work on file encryption for this first. It's expected to cost $225 per user.


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|"You should know the Master turns almost everyone away. What did you bring him to prove your worth?"
|— Fat to Sokka.[1]
Fat was a swordsman who served as Piandao's loyal yet disgruntled butler.[2] A serious man, Fat did not find many things humorous. He prepared meals and beverages for Piandao and his students, whom he also assisted in training.[1]
Fat came to Piandao many years before Sokka's visit and proved his worth by cooking him a delicious dinner. Piandao trained Fat in exchange for some good, home-cooked grub, and the two have been together at Piandao's castle ever since.[2]
Upon Sokka's arrival at Piandao's door step, Fat warned him that Piandao was notorious for turning nearly every aspiring student down. After Sokka subsequently failed to procure a token that would prove his worth, Fat was skeptical that the young Water Tribe warrior would be allowed to train at the estate, though granted him access to the castle nonetheless in order to face Piandao. He was present when Piandao agreed to train Sokka and subsequently became the young man's training partner, easily overpowering and humiliating him in their earlier battles. When Sokka's training led him to rearrange the courtyard of the castle, Fat became upset at the considerable mess Sokka made. As Sokka's training neared its end, Fat was bested by Sokka in a one-on-one swordfighting match. Although he was less than pleased with being beaten by the young man, Fat held no grudge and aided Sokka in the procurement of pieces of meteor to forge the latter's sword with.
When Sokka and his friends were leaving, Fat stopped them just outside the castle gate, saying that Piandao had sent him a gift to remember him by. He handed Sokka a small sack, inside of which was a white lotus Pai Sho tile, and bowed respectfully before returning inside.[1]
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Book Three: Fire (火)
- 304. "Sokka's Master"
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hedrick, Tim (writer) & Volpe, Giancarlo (director). (October 12, 2007). "Sokka's Master". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 4. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com. Encyclopedia now broken, archived at The Lost Lore of Avatar Aang - Character: Fat.


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Organization: Air Force Research Laboratory, Director of Defense Research and Engineering's Software Protection Initiative.
Air Force lab finds a simple way to support telework
Lightweight Portable Security: It's not just for the Pentagon
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Project: Lightweight Portable Security.
Challenge: Allow secure access to Defense Department networks in the event that a pandemic or other emergency forced people to work from home.
Solution: Lightweight Portable Security, which provides trusted endpoints for remotely accessing DOD IT resources from untrusted environments, which enables secure Internet browsing and telework on sensitive systems.
Impact: LPS-Remote Access has since been adopted by more than 30 DOD organizations with more than 58,000 employees. More than 35,500 licenses of the free, publicly available LPS-Public have been downloaded.
Cost: Developed by the lab using open-source software.
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After unbeaten spring, here comes the Herd
The Buffalo Bisons (7-0-2) concluded their spring training exhibition schedule with a 7-2 victory over the New Orleans Zephyrs (Florida) on Friday afternoon from Port St. Lucie, FL.
The Herd was unbeaten this spring with seven wins, two ties and one rainout in their 10-game schedule against the Triple-A affiliates of the Florida Marlins and the St. Louis Cardinals.
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On Friday, the Bisons rode a five-run first inning to victory. The team hit for the cycle in the first frame, starting with a home run from Mets' shortstop Jose Reyes. Reyes went 1-4 with a walk while playing seven innings at shortstop for the Bisons.
OF JASON PRIDIE followed with a triple and scored two batters later on INF IKE DAVIS'S two-run double. INF MIKE CERVENAK finished off the inning with a two-run single.
INF MIKE HESSMAN drove in the other two runs in the game, while OF JESUS FELICIANO, C JOSH THOLE and INF LUIS HERNANDEZ also collected base hits for Buffalo on Friday.
On the mound, LHP BOBBY LIVINGSTON collected the win for Buffalo. The southpaw allowed two runs on five hits in five innings of work. Livingston walked one and struck out three.
There are just 12 days until the Bisons' 2010 Home Opener on Wednesday, April 14 against the Pawtucket Red Sox (3:05 p.m.). Tickets are now on-sale at bisons.com or by calling THE-HERD at (843-4373).


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Rian Butler is a fierce legal advocate who fights tirelessly to help our clients pursue the full compensation they deserve. Rian focuses his practice on car accidents, premises liability, dog bites, and more.
Rian's professional success has stemmed from his competitive nature, as he is willing to go to bat for our clients no matter how difficult a case may seem. He spent time living in Ireland and England in high school, and his unique upbringing has enabled him to relate to people from all walks of life. One of his greatest strengths is his cool and calm demeanor, but do not underestimate his grit: he will fight tooth and nail to help his clients receive every penny they are owed.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Houston, Rian went on to earn his juris doctorate from the South Texas College of Law. Prior to joining Zinda Law Group, he gained valuable litigation experience at another personal injury firm, where he worked as a project manager and accountant before taking on the role of attorney. In that position, he managed both oil spill and personal injury dockets, and he represented plaintiffs affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
This talented litigator is active in his professional community as a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice. In his leisure hours, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf, and cheering on Houston sports teams.
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Super Boy is China's version of American Idol, but all-male. So the judges were pretty confounded when a cross-dressing guy auditioned looking and sounding like a gorgeous young woman. His performance was a little too good, actually. Translation follows.
The contestant, Liu Zhu, a 19-year-old music-school student from the Sichuan province, prompted a particularly harsh reaction from judge Annie Rose, who wasn't having it. A translation of some of the dialogue between the two:
Rose: "I am still suspicious about your identity. Can we examine your gender?"
Zhu: "How do you examine?"
Rose: "Do you choose a male judge or a female judge to verify? I still have doubts about your identity. I think you are a girl."
Zhu: "I didn't lie. Thank you."
Rose: "But I feel if you are lying, you are playing tricks on us and the viewers."
Zhu: "I didn't lie or play tricks on you."
Rose: "Then I hope the netizens will human flesh search you! Can you swear on your dignity?"
Zhu: "I can swear on it on anything…"
Not sure how much dignity he'll have left to swear on if the judges keep that up.
In the interview after Zhu's audition, Zhu explained that this has been his lifestyle choice since he was young: "I am indeed a boy, and I dress like this every day." His family has accepted his choice, he says, and it would feel wrong for to enter the competition dressed like someone else wouldn't feel right. "This way is more natural, if I purposely dress like a boy just for this contest, I think it would be very fake."
Cross-Dressing Boy Entering Singing Contest, Judges And Viewers Stunned [ChinaHush]


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B. Stenger, A. Thayananthan, P. H. S. Torr, and R. Cipolla.
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Within this paper a new framework for Bayesian tracking is presented, which approximates the posterior distribution at multiple resolutions. We propose a tree-based representation of the distribution, where the leaves define a partition of the state space with piecewise constant density. The advantage of this representation is that regions with low probability mass can be rapidly discarded in a hierarchical search, and the distribution can be approximated to arbitrary precision. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the technique by using it for tracking 3D articulated and non-rigid motion in front of cluttered background. More specifically, we are interested in estimating the joint angles, position and orientation of a 3D hand model in order to drive an avatar.
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- Doma Cathedral: still in progress since 1211, the exterior comprises various architectural styles, while the interior features many works of art.
- Open Air Ethnographic Museum: a lakeside outdoor exhibit of preserved, original Latvian architecture.
- Central Market: a market that offers a wide variety of items ranging from cheese to fresh fruit to smoked meat and seasonal produce.
- Riga Zoo: sitting on Lake Ķīšezers, it boats a large diversity of reptiles, mammals and birds.
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With trams, buses, and trolleys, public transport is readily available. It is fairly economical, and once you figure it out, it gets you where you need to go. The oldest and best options for public transport are the trams. Enjoy this unusual experience as you make your rounds in Riga.
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I recently blogged about a solution I had decided to use in order to solve a problem related to PayPeriod Matching. The result needed to meet a few requirements. One of those requirements was to arrive at the results without the use of a Table. I did not want to create a table that may need to be maintained down the road. I also wanted to give myself a little more time to make sure the database being used in the warehouse was not involved in one of the ETL processes that actually restores a the database from a different system. Another requirement was that the current payperiod create an aggregate as well as the prior pay period create an aggregate. This information was to be consumed by Reporting Services for a report. At the time, I now realize that, I had insufficient data for this to work as desired. Thus, I needed to revisit the solution and make a couple of adjustments.
The first adjustment to be made was the creation of a table and the elimination of the CTE. Though the CTE performed very rapidly in every single test I threw at it, it bogged down during our month-end processing. That is another process that will be revised shortly and will not be so resource intensive nor will it be so time intensive. Anyway, that is a topic for another discussion. Present circumstances required an update to the proc that I created in order to make it perform better and regain, on a more long-term basis, the performance the CTE showed during testing and the first couple of weeks it lived in production prior to month-end processing. I went ahead and created the table for the payperiods.
Not only did I create the table due to performance reasons, but it also simplified my query later in the proc. The aggregates for the previous payperiod needed an easier way to be retrieved. There was also an inaccuracy in my query. With more data, I was able to spot it. All previous payperiods were being lumped into the previous payperiod – though I only wanted the immediate previous payperiod and nothing more. This caused the aggregates to be incorrect. The solution could have still been achieved through the use of the CTE, however I wanted to simplify it a little and produce a faster result.
My final solution does not eliminate all CTE's – merely the PayPeriod Table population CTE. Now I use a CTE to retrieve the current payperiod and then recursively pull in the previous payperiod. The table was created exactly like the CTE with an ID field, PeriodStart and PeriodEnd. I decided the simplest method to ensure I would only aggregate on the two payperiods in question was to only pull those two payperiods into the query. I wanted to be certain that I could only have two periods in play at any time.
[codesyntax lang="sql"]
With twoperiods as (Select top 2 p1.PeriodID,p1.startdate,p1.enddate
From PayPeriods p1
Inner Join LCComm_PayPeriods p2
On p2.PeriodID = p1.PrevID
Where (@CurrentDate between p1.Startdate and p1.Enddate)
Union All
Select p2.PeriodID,p2.startdate,p2.enddate
From PayPeriods p1
Inner Join PayPeriods p2
On p2.PeriodID = p1.PrevID
Where (@CurrentDate between p1.Startdate and p1.Enddate)
With this method, you can see that I peform a top 2 operation in the base query from the PayPeriods table. Without the recursive definition on this query, the base query will only return 1 record. With the recursion, it will only return two records. In addition to that change, I changed the Left Joins later in the query to the following:
[codesyntax lang="sql"]
Left Outer Join twoperiods PS
On MIS.RecordDate between PS.StartDate and PS.EndDate
And @CurrentDate between PS.StartDate and PS.EndDate
Left Outer Join twoperiods Prev
On MIS.RecordDate Between Prev.StartDate and Prev.EndDate
and IsNull(PS.StartDate,0) = 0
And then one final change of note. I changed the aggregation on the Previous PayPeriod to the following:
[codesyntax lang="sql"]
, Case When IsNull(Prev.StartDate,0) = 0 Then 0
Else 1
End As PreviousPayPeriod
This was much simpler than what I was trying to use previously. I also found a nice side effect of using the top clause in the base query of the CTE. When using the top in a recursive query, it appears that
[codesyntax lang="sql"]
option (maxrecursion n)
is no longer necessary. I tested this and retested to verify results. Just another way of controlling a recursive CTE in SQL server.
I was happy with the first query that I came up to meet this requirement. I am much more satisfied with this revision. Query times are <= 1 sec and other performance indicators are positive. Of course, using the table, I can now use indexes on the date ranges which should help query performance somewhat as well.
Despite meeting the requirements in the last article, and the query being pretty cool in performing what it did – sometimes it really is better to test other methods. Even with the need to maintain this table (maybe), the consistent performance gains and accuracy outweigh the desire to not create that table. It is a good idea to test multiple methods in some cases to ensure best path decision is made. It was a good exercise to come back to this one and redo the query – I learned at least one new trick (really a few). Learning something new made it worthwhile.


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A Disrespectful Loyalty
THE VIETNAM WAR is a 10-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. An immersive, 360-degree narrative, the series tells the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film.
A Disrespectful Loyalty
South Vietnamese forces fighting on their own suffer a terrible defeat in Laos. After being re-elected in a landslide, Nixon strikes a peace deal with Hanoi that allows American prisoners of war finally to come home to a bitterly divided country.
THE VIETNAM WAR features testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
Ten years in the making, the series brings the war and the chaotic epoch it encompassed viscerally to life. It includes rarely seen, digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and revelatory audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations. The series features more than 100 iconic musical recordings from many of the greatest artists of the era, and original music from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as well as the Silk Road Ensemble featuring Yo-Yo Ma.


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Welcome to My Chronic Internet Freak-Out Syndrome
Left: AOL, about the time the internet and I first met. (Remember that sonorous modem music? The sound of the future!) Right: AOL now (yes, it's still there). With lotsa "headline news" on household health hazards, amazing pet stories, and shocking-yet-true dramatic personal episodes of total nobodies.
I should probably start with a brief, unflattering jaunt down memory lane—unflattering mostly to my old college buddy, the internet. See, I came of age as a graphic designer in the early 2000s, when the internet was a vastly different place—virtually (heh, virtually) unrecognizable. I'd only ever had an AOL email account. I'd never sent a text. MySpace hadn't even dethroned Friendster yet as king of social media (a term no one had ever heard), Facebook was still just a glint in young Zuck's eye, Twitter was a looong way off, and a camera phone was the must-have device du jour (bonus points if yours didn't have a little antenna you pulled out to get reception).


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K-State to Host 100th Annual Cattlemen's Day March 1
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State University's Cattlemen's Day always has numerous events associated with it, but this year's 100th Annual Cattlemen's Day on March 1 will be special in several ways.
"We're kicking off the Henry C. Gardiner Lectureship with inaugural speaker Steve Hunt of U.S. Premium Beef," said Ken Odde, head of K-State's Department of Animal Sciences and Industry. "Henry Gardiner is a visionary leader in beef cattle genetics. We are pleased to honor him by launching this lecture series in his name."
Gardiner, widely considered a pioneer in beef genetics, is founder of Gardiner Angus Ranch in Ashland, Kan.
Cattlemen's Day begins at 8 a.m. in K-State's Weber Hall with a commercial trade show and educational exhibits. The program begins at 10 a.m. in Weber 123.
Hunt, who guided U.S. Premium Beef as its chief executive officer from 1996 through January 2013, and now serves as an advisor to the company, will present, "Designing Meats and Meals." Other topics and presenters will include:
• Keeping Your Farm in the Family for the Next Generation – Ron Hanson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln;
• Cattle Market and Industry Short-Run Outlook and Long Term-Prospective – Ted Schroeder and Glynn Tonsor – K-State; and
Afternoon breakout sessions will include:
• Ammoniation: Stretching your Forage Supply – Dale Blasi and Justin Waggoner – K-State;
• To Clone a Dead Steer, As Long as It's Not Too Dead – David Grieger, K-State;
• Beef Selection Systems to Meet Market Trends – Bob Weaber and Mike MacNeil– K-State;
• Heifer Development in a High Cost Environment – Sandy Johnson – K-State;
• Developing a Strategic Plan for Farm Family Succession – Ron Hanson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Producer Panel: Our Approach – moderated by Gregg Hadley, K-State;
• Is All Ground Beef Created Equally? – John Unruh, K-State.
The day also features a ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony for the new Stanley Stout Center from 3-4 p.m. just ahead of the 36th Annual Legacy Sale. A celebration social will be held in the Stanley Stout Center immediately following the sale.
More information and online registration is available at www.asi.ksu.edu/cattlemensday.


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We are watching a neighborhood being born in South Robertson. Between the 10 Freeway and Pico Boulevard, and Beverwil Drive and La Cienaga, a cluster of small communities surrounded by much larger neighborhoods such as Culver City and Beverly Hills, have long been isolated by freeway and major thruways. These residential communities collectively are a microcosm of Los Angeles' long overlooked hyper diversity, from Persian to Russian Jews, to Sikhs and Coptic Christians, among Caucasians, Latinos and African Americans.
Through its heart, Robertson Boulevard has divided the evolving neighborhood, both geographically as well as economically. To the west is the upper crust with its gated communities and winding streets; to the east are blue-collar workers and dilapidated apartment complexes. Pico Boulevard is lined with chabads, temples and Jewish businesses, producing a rich walking community that Robertson hopes to one day share.
With the formation of the South Robertson Neighborhoods Council, the communities are both excited and nervous at the new venture of creating a unified neighborhood. Initiatives to beautify the streets, to improve the Robertson business corridor, and to create common spaces are bringing communities together, while making others wonder: Who are my new neighbors?


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In addition, top performers were 22 times more prepared to challenge the status quo in their organizations, rethink current strategies and business processes, and aggressively apply and act on new insights derived from analytics.
The IBM study also found that top performers were six times more likely to entrust a broader base of employees with greater authority to make decisions and act on insights.
Entitled "Breaking away with business analytics and optimization," the study is based on a blind survey of nearly 400 business executives globally, who rated their businesses versus peers. The study is thought to be the first major worldwide inquiry into the actual business impact of analytics. Published by the IBM Institute for Business Value, the full study is available today at www.ibm.com/gbs/intelligent-enterprise.
"Our study found that over the past 18 months, top-performing businesses excelled at applying analytics and empowering their people to act on these insights. We expect these organizations will emerge from the current economic condition with a huge head start over their competitors," said Fred Balboni, Global Leader, Business Analytics and Optimization, IBM Global Business Services. "A flood of information has created an entirely new set of assets, just waiting to be applied to clients' toughest challenges."
As part of the analysis, IBM consultants determined top-performing organizations are able to more fully exploit business analytics for competitive advantage. "A critical part of this success is that these organizations were able to drive change by having the right management systems, tools, and culture in place -- creating, in effect, an organization that seeks and evaluates, and is ready to act on new opportunity," said Steve LaValle, author of the study and Strategy Leader, Business Analytics and Optimization, IBM Global Business Services.
IBM's analysis also discovered having superior data governance -- assuring that data definitions were clear, relevant and accepted -- is critical the success for top performers. By a factor of three to one, the study found that top performers were much more sophisticated in their approach to governing organizational information relative to lower performing companies (42 percent versus 14 percent).
IBM itself is one of the leading users of analytics in the industry. The company recently detailed its own internal use of analytics via an initiative called Blue Insight. IBM will use this cloud computing environment to gather information from nearly 100 different information warehouses and data stores, providing analytics on more than a petabyte (1,000 terabytes or 1,000,000 gigabytes) of data. For example, IBM sales teams use analytics to better predict which products and services would deliver the most client value.
Overall, IBM also found that relatively few organizations have supported business analytics and optimization at this level. IBM's consultants have determined a number of key areas where organizations looking to position themselves to break away from the competition need to focus:
- Advanced Toolsets - including predictive analytics, information visualization and content management tools.
- Actionable Information - identifying actionable and relevant insights from the structured and unstructured information residing in and outside their enterprise.
- Putting Data to Use - connecting information to business objectives and across business functions.
- Driving business change - focusing on the people and process change, governance and organizational alignment needed to implement new analytics projects.
To successfully implement these business analytics projects, business leaders will need to drive support across their organizations. A key ally will be CIOs who seem to be in lock step with this objective according to a separate IBM study. In the recently released IBM Global CIO Study, 83 percent of CIOs identified business intelligence and analytics as their No. 1 priority to enhance their organizations' competitiveness.
IBM has made a significant investment in business analytics and optimization, including the creation of a consulting practice of 4,000 dedicated to analytics. IBM also has opened a network of seven Analytics Solution Centers -- in New York, Dallas, London, Berlin, Beijing, Washington and Tokyo -- and expects to retrain or hire as many as 4,000 new analytics consultants and professionals globally as part of these centers.
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One of the more compelling keynote presentations from the Global Plastics Summit, Nov. 4-6 in Chicago, was delivered by Greg Jozwiak, North America commercial v.p. for Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, and Scott Farmer, executive vp for global purchasing for processing giant Berry Plastics. In separate presentations, they gave their viewpoints on the growth opportunities shale gas will ultimately offer to packaging suppliers.
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Both were extremely optimistic. "Shale gas offers plentiful and competitive energy for America," Jozwiak said in his talk, titled Shale Gas: Fueling the Resurgence of the American Plastics Industry. "It justifies new investments and provides opportunity for growth across the plastics industry via core market growth, reshoring, traditional material conversion to plastics, potential to export converted goods, and selective resin export."
Jozwiak went on to point out that in the $173 billion packaging market, plastics overall has a 35% market share. Polyethylene in particular has a 10% share in packaging, he said. If PE's share would increase by just a single percentage point, Jozwiak said, the consequences would be extraordinary. "An increase of 1% translates to 200,000 metric tons of PE consumption," he said, citing the Smithers Pira Packaging in North America to 2017 study. "That amount alone would require about 28 (film) processing lines."
But the Dow packaging executive is more bullish than that. "Core growth (due to shale gas) could boost growth by 2.5%, reshoring 1%, substitution (of non-plastics packaging) by 0.75% and export of finished goods another 0.25%," he explained. "That's 4.5% of growth, representing 770,000 metric tons/yr." Jozwiak added that Dow customers outside of the U.S. are looking at establishing a manufacturing footprint in America to tap into this potential. Other sources say the reshoring trend has already begun, pointing to new installations this year of high-density lines to make T-shirt grocery sacks, can liners and produce film.
To Berry's Farmer, however, much of shale gas' potential to U.S. processors is tied to how much—or if—resin prices come down. "Resin generally comprises the largest portion of the overall cost to plastic packaging, as much as 70% or more," he said. "Producers are enjoying lower costs due to investments made in the shale boom. Converters are paying on average higher prices than previous years. Lower costs will allow plastic packaging to grow into spaces currently occupied by other substrates. Lower costs will increase domestic manufacturing bringing products and jobs back to the US. Lower costs will create the potential to drive innovation and growth."
Left unsaid in this discussion was equipment. One industry source estimates that more than 70% of the 20 billion lb/yr of blown film is currently processed on equipment that's 10 years old or older. It can be argued that if resin costs from shale gas drop even a penny a pound—a huge amount for any processor, particularly those who deal in high volumes—film producers will still be leaving money and opportunities on the table if they continue to run it through equipment that doesn't offer the lastest capabilities in throughput, gauge control and quality.


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A senior yearbook quote is a place to sum up your personal philosophy, your goals in life, or your time in High school, all in one place. The quote should be poignant and reflective, OR, you could just be like these people and write down something funny.
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Oyinbo: Will the Real Nigerian Please Stand Up!
On many occasions, I have been told by Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike that I do not fit the profile of what they either assume a Nigerian to be and act like – in the case of non-Nigerians – or that my speech and mannerisms betray my ethnicity and nationality. In society, we are often seeking for a sense of belonging and a sense of identity that is usually defined through other people's perception of us. To a certain extent, certain factors of our identities are passed down to us by default, such as our race, gender and sexual orientation (to a certain degree), nationality, and ethnicity, to name a few. For instance, on paper, I can be described as a black, female, Nigerian of the Yoruba tribe. However, none of these labels or even the labels collectively, accurately defines who I am as a human being.
Having lived in many other countries throughout the world, as opposed to my home country of Nigeria, I am fully aware of the fact that as a Nigerian living in the Diaspora, my realities differ from that of the average Nigerians who have. Often times, when in Nigeria or amongst Nigerians who have grown up solely in the Western world, I find it hard to relate or find the middle ground between the two groups that where I seem to fit in. For instance, those who have grown-up primarily within the Diaspora do not always feel that sense of connection for their heritage that native Nigerians feel. Furthermore, for many of them, Nigeria seems to be a far, foreign and alien concept that they are yet to see, and at times this causes a separation between them and their immediate roots, that in turn leaves them unattached to the happenings in Nigeria.
For those who were born, bred and either continue to live in Nigeria, or have only recently left, I often find that their sense of patriotism, nationalism and unity is on a far greater scale than those who are based in the Diaspora, and even more so than myself. These Nigerians are often quick to label anyone who does not share in the Nigerian experience that can only be acquired in one having lived there, as not fully Nigerians. This is mainly because of the hardships and constant friction that people living in Nigeria feel, and is often the source of flight for many of those who have re-settled in countries around the world. Those who are left in the country to inevitably take on this burden often feel that it is these very experiences that shape and define the Nigerian identity. Thus, if one has not experienced this sort of lifestyle, one cannot claim to be a Nigerian as that person would have no real understanding of what other Nigerians attach the basis of their identity to.
In-between those who are detached and others who have no choice but to be attached, lie people similar to me. Although I was born in Nigeria, by the age of four I relocated and although I visit often, it is not the same as living in Nigeria permanently. At times, I often feel like a foreigner when visiting my home country, where at times I have been referred to as a, "oyinbo", a Yoruba word meaning "white person", due to the fact that I sound and act like one, according to certain people in Nigeria. At first, this came as a shock and although it was not meant as a direct insult, I certainly took as one. For starters, I was certainly not a white person – at least in the racial sense. Secondly, with the exception of this particular context, due to the fact that I am black I have never enjoyed the privileges experience by white people in other countries. Yes, I did not speak the language fluently, and yes, I had not lived in Nigeria permanently beyond the age of four, even my first name did not reflect my ethnicity or my nationality, but was that enough to dismiss my ever-increasing sense of pride in being a Nigerian despite the negative and at times hateful remarks I continuously endure because of my nationality.
I was always left completely baffled and could not quite fully comprehend, until much later, that this had nothing to do with my skin color, but everything to do with perception. After all, where does one draw the line between defining oneself by way of other people, or through one's own personal understanding of a particular ideology, regarding identity? What are the criteria that one has to fulfill in order to make one eligible and deserving of a title or label? If such criteria exists, is it malleable and subject to change? Or is it fixed and set in stone, with no possibility of exceptions and additions? I find that over and over again, I continuously have to prove myself as a Nigerian – mostly to my fellow countrymen – but also to those who see me as too westernized to even be an African. In the presence of non-Nigerians, there have been times that people have forgotten my nationality and even gone as far as to make negative remarks about Nigeria and Nigerians. Naturally, this leaves me greatly offended, and when I do not side with them and staunchly defend those who they have attempted to degrade, they are often left surprised as I remind them that whether or not they consider myself to be a "different kind of Nigerian, not like the others", it does not change the fact that I am one, regardless.
Although I can understand where these judgments stem from, it does not make them any easier to bear. Constantly having to prove one's self worth for the satisfaction of others is a tiring process. This comes as a disadvantage of not growing up in my home country, as well as through the conditioning that I have been exposed to in the West. For a large portion of my childhood, I greatly ignored the significance of African, and specifically Nigerian, history. Not because I believed it to be irrelevant to my life, but because the schools I attended greatly omitted this subject in my education. A lot of what I have come to know of both Nigeria and various African countries has been through a great personal effort to educate myself through reading, as well as in asking my parents, relatives and friends about their experiences and the history of their identities. In doing so, I have been able to re-connect with those who were once skeptical about my patriotism and concerns for Africa and its people. More specifically, I have also come to identify as a Pan-Africanist: someone who believes in the unification of all African people and nations, regardless of our differences. For if we can overcome what divides us, what unites us shall eventually persevere and ensure a secure and prosperous future. As simple as that sounds, the goals and hardships to overcome are deeply rooted in former and neo-colonialist structures that have immensely affected the state of Africa today. It is going to take a complete overhaul of many of the ideologies that were embedded by European colonialists that continue to be enforced, still to this day. Many Africans still feel a sense of division that has flourished since colonialist times, hence the labeling of someone who has lived in the west as a "oyinbo" - a white man, a betrayer of the African identity.
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Mike Penner (once known as Christine Daniels), a transsexual sports writer, has committed suicide, and I find myself heartbroken at the news.
April 2007 was a time of huge uncertainty in my life. I had just started hormones and was working through the horrible fears I had about being judged, abandoned, and hated. I was also beginning to get glimmers of self acceptance and was beginning to discuss my situation with Mary Jo, my doctor, and my therapist. I began to feel that I might survive GID (gender identity disorder), but I couldn't picture just how I would go about surviving it.
Then, on April 26, 2007, I read an electrifying piece in the Los Angeles Times, "Old Mike, New Christine," a story about the sports journalist Mike Penner who was transitioning into a woman named Christine Daniels. Here was a heroic trans*woman who had outed herself on the front page of the newspaper, a woman who was able to describe her gender distress and her subsequent decision to transition to sports readers, a woman who was instantly celebrated in her LA Times transition blog.
Two months earlier, on February 21, Susan Stanton was outed on the front pages of her newspaper. The way Stanton, the city manager of Largo, Florida, was outed in a way that frightened me to no end, and I could easily imagine my firing and destruction if anyone ever found out about me. But Christine Daniels' self-outing felt completely different: she was taking control of her life, told her story to millions, and kept her job as a sports writer. This was someone I wanted to be like — her poise was an inspiration to me. I thought of her often, read her transition blog weekly, and even studied her coming out letter as I grappled with finishing my own letter on Christmas, 2007, only a few months away from the date I eventually mailed out my letters to the world.
It was quite a jolt, therefore, when Christine decided to de-transition in October 2008 (read here , here, and here for more information). Detransitioning is a huge thing (I wrote about it in February 2008), and there was a lot of speculation in the trans* community about Mike's decision. Was the real-life experience not going well? Was Christine finding it difficult to continue doing sports writing? It was suggested by those in the know, i.e. those who attended Los Angeles transgender support groups, that Christine's transition was going well and that she was happy.
Still, this decision to return to being Mike Penner spoke volumes to me, not because there's anything wrong about figuring out your gender in the way that you need, but because I wondered if Christine had come out too early, perhaps burned bridges that could not be fixed once her public coming-out story was printed. Or was it the case that Christine felt the deep sadness of loss as she began to settle into her new life, a sadness with which I'm quite familiar. Who knows why she returned to being Mike. The derision in the sports pages was intense — if there had been sympathy among the LA Times sports readers at her earlier coming-out, this switch back to Mike was greeted by jokes about "women changing their minds," about the "penis being mightier than the sword," and worst of all, doubts about the legitimacy of the trans* phenomenon at all.
Christine / Mike meant a lot to me for all of the above reasons. S/he was my age and had to face a very public coming out. S/he, like myself, managed to transition and maintain her job. S/he managed to transition (and then de-transition) without dragging all her neuroses in front of talk-television, without writing a best-seller. S/he seemed to me to be a very complex, very powerful, and very frail human being. Reading the news of the suicide today feels like a kick in the gut, not just because of the terrible sorrow surrounding a life cut short, but because of the reminder of the torment attached to gender variance of all sorts, whether "classic" transsexualism, crossdressing, or gender-queering. I wish there were balm that could have been given to Mike/Christine to sooth the pain.
I wrote a short piece called Dark Places in July 2008 about another trans*woman who committed suicide, and the feeling I have now is equally wrenching. It's too late for this online friend, just as it's too late for Mike Penner. But it's not too late for the rest of us — life is too short and the hurdles from outsiders too high for us to harm ourselves. Better to accept ourselves, to open up channels for outreach to those who are alone, to tell our stories. We need to tell stories of success. We need friends, families, and co-workers to tell stories of acceptance so the imagined terror is diffused. And we need to hear stories of pain and failure, as well, to remind us of the stakes involved. When we list the names of transgendered people harmed by violence every year during the Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20), we should also recall our own violence —physical and mental — that we foist upon ourselves.
Farewell, Mike. Farewell, Christine. You were brave and well-spoken. Your story was both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for the rest of us. You will be missed.


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What is General Education?
General Education is your academic introduction to the university. This academic introduction is developed primarily through the General Education Curriculum, a set of course requirements that all students at Dillard University, regardless of their major, must meet. The courses offered in the General Education curriculum provide diverse perspectives and help you acquire the skills essential to university-level learning. Most students complete the General Education curriculum by the end of their sophomore year.
Why are you required to take General Education courses?
Dillard University's mission is to produce graduates who excel, become world leaders, are broadly educated, culturally aware, and concerned with improving the human condition. In order to be broadly educated, Dillard requires its undergraduate students to take the General Education courses listed below. We have a deep conviction that living a successful and satisfying life demands a wide range of skills and knowledge. Whatever your area of specialization or career plan, you will need the skills to reason logically and quantitively, and to communicate effectively. Further, as a consumer and citizen you will need to have an understanding of the ideas and cultural movements that shape our values, the ways in which humans organize and govern their socities, and the sciences that explain and increasingly shape our environment.
General Education Curriculum
English 111 & 112 - 6 hrs
These courses build the foundation for clear and effective communication via writing. Writing and the writing process are emphasized in Eng 111, argumentation and research in Eng 112. These courses explore the range of cultural expression, creativity and critical inquiry of humanity that are central to a liberal arts education. Students must pass ENG 111 and 112 with a "C" or better.
Literature - 3 hrs
ENG 201 Readings in World Literature or ENG 202 Readings in World Literature
World Languages 121 & 122 - 6 hours (or placement level)
These courses develop competencies in reading, writing, speaking and listening as well as broadening cultural awareness and perspectives on global trends.
Mathematics 121 (or higher) - 3 hrs
This course develops quantitative skills and proficiency in the utilization of mathematical skills, concepts and ideas to solve problems and interpret information.
Economics 203 - 3 hrs
This course develops quantitative skills and proficiency in the working of national and international economics.
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These courses promote an awareness and understanding of African and African-American heritage. It is an interdisciplinary course (history, literature, art, music, sociology, anthropology, etc.) that examines critical themes and patterns that have influenced and continue to have an impact on African-descended peoples around the world.
AWS 100 - 3 hrs
REL 208 - The Black Church - 2 hrs
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These courses emphasize the theories and methods that explain human social organization; human interaction with their physical environment; institutional and group behavior as it relates to politics, government and law; the mechanisms through which a society produces, trades, and distributes material goods; and the mental, emotional and behavioral processes of individuals.
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New York artist Matthew Lutz Kinoy's latest dance performance, Donna Haraway's Expanded Benefits Package, is set in the compounded space of artist studio / gay bar / queer community center. Featuring music by SOPHIE, the event premieres a display of sculpture, large scale painting, and a video projection entitled "Ideals, Bars, Shoes, and Legs," setting the stage for a sensual physical space in which the artist and collaborator Chelsea Culp dance and recite collaged erotic texts from London and New York. The event highlights a shifting frame, which allows for chance readings of moving image both painterly and physical. Donna Haraway's Expanded Benefits Package, remembers the New Museum's neighboring historic center Judson Church, by celebrating the tradition of translating daily activities into activist choreography.
Lauren Cornell: Donna Haraway's Expanded Benefits Package is set in what you describe as "the compounded space of artist studio / gay bar / queer community center." Is this triangle of social spaces one that relates to your life? How will the choreography of the piece reflect and express this location?
MATTHEW LUTZ-KINOY: In this performance I propose that the individual creates the narrative of the social space and that the social space constructs the narrative of the individual. The set of the performance is constructed in video by superimposing footage from these locations on top of one another and the role of the set shifts between being a forgrounded character to a background for live action and music. For this piece I chose to frame my research within a compounded architecture of the locations that had a direct influence on the production of this work. These locations shaped my daily gesture, they propose the way one's body interacts with the world. My choreography is based in the quotidian experience of those dynamic locations I found myself inspired.
LC: Will you unravel the title for us?
ML-K: Donna Haraway's Expanded Benefits Package is a collaged title that comes from the research that formed this project. It allows an effortless play into the connection between Haraway's narrative fictions and historic expanded cinema practices. Relations of the body to time-based technologies are a manifestation of 'ways of being' on the horizon. Haraway expresses this with agency in her famous cyborg feminist manifesto regarding the post-human frame and the permeability of her "elsewhere" into everyday life. My emphasis on the strategic and real "Benefits Package" comes from an interest to push forward and promote the marginally explored body of expanded cinema. The dynamic figure of moving image that expands the projection sits closely on that horizon to the impossibilities and contradictions of a "natural" world. We must look back at the practices that influence our own history in the arts, especially regarding a relationship to moving image. As Jackie Hatfield states in "some reasons for a review of the avant-garde debates around narrativity": "Because what actually went down was totally different."
LC: One of the first performances of yours I saw involved you dancing on a life-sized love letter, a performed version of Lifting Belly at the Kunstverein in Amsterdam. It was, at turns, full of joy, full of critique of emotional expression as it is performed, and very witty. Can you talk about how DHEBP evolves out of your practice, and perhaps how it differs from its original version?
ML-K: Ah! Lets talk about pleasure! This piece is a point of return in the process of documenting and re-presenting a collection of performances using video, sculpture, and live action. DHEBP compounds the accumulation of that material and creates a new social space that is made real by the audiences viewing.
This assumes that a work when presented is always mixing a new context, it is extraordinarily sensitive, and could not be any more wrong than right. My presentation's temporality is only strengthened and complicated due to the relationship to pre-made and pre-recorded materials. This featured moment is layered in representation and experience; it is a space of so much joy, highlighting the pleasures of emotion and memory.
LC: SOPHIE is providing the music for the performance, which is played both in the video and live. When did you two start collaborating, and why this music in particular?
ML-K: SOPHIE and I began collaborating in Berlin in 2008 with a band called Motherland. We recorded two EPs and performed constantly for a year and a half at night clubs; we got to perform at the Hayward gallery in London, and even at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, who do such a great job. Then, last summer at the Socrates Sculpture Park I used an instrumental track from Motherland to choreograph a short dance piece, Future Fabrics. I realized at that moment the integral strength of presenting original music from my close community within the frame of my art practice. I am more interested in a combination of SOPHIE's music with my own work à-la Cunningham/Cage, so here I provide a layering of these two elements rather than a harmonious or synchronized structure. SOPHIE's music is invested in producing new combinations of sounds; taking pop elements and elaborating on their best qualities to create an ultimate pop music. The music is located in a future space by structuring itself within the quotidian which compliments my interests in queer horizontality. The music presents constant surprise; it is thrilling to feature this live set. People are going to freak out.


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The episode begins with Ash and his friends traveling through a tunnel and when they emerge they receive a very cold welcoming, as they have now entered the snowy northern part of Sinnoh. Just ahead is Shelter Town, the final stop before Snowpoint City, so the gang decides to take a pit stop before moving on. While in a Pokémon Center, Dawn asks after a package that is due to be delivered to her, however Nurse Joy informs her it hasn't arrived yet. To pass the time, Dawn lets Buneary out of her Poké Ball to let her have some fun with the other Pokémon. Then, a stranger comes racing for Buneary and starts to hug and play around with it chanting the phrase "so cute", the stranger is a girl called Marilyn, who believes cute Pokémon are the best. She explains that her criteria for cuteness is that the Pokémon must be under 2 feet tall and must not have evolved, therefore Dawn introduces her Piplup to Marilyn to see if she think Piplup is cute or not. Despite the fact that he meets her requirements, Marilyn discourages the fact he's cute and starts to remark on the features that turns off Piplup's cuteness, thus enraging Dawn and causing Piplup to be paralyzed in shock. After calling Dawn "Dawny", claiming it was a cuter name than Dawn, Marilyn is challenged to a battle, which she accepts.
Once the battle begins, Dawn uses Buneary causing Marilyn to infatuate over Buneary's cuteness, almost forgetting about the battle, she then sends out Cherubi. At the start of the battle, Marilyn orders Cherubi to use Protect when Buneary attacks with Ice Beam... however Cherubi still recoils in pain even though Protect was successful. Brock realizes that this is simply Marilyn's attempt to stall the battle, making him angry and he orders her to battle properly or be disqualified. Marilyn tells Brock what she thinks battling is, which is the valiant of a Pokémon and how it stands up after being hit, thus enraging Brock and yells at her some more, she finally obeys Brock and defeats Buneary with a single SolarBeam. Marilyn is very pleased with herself, while Brock refuses to believe that a Pokémon's cuteness is their only asset in battle.
Nearby Team Rocket plans on taking Marilyn's Cherubi by tricking her to battle them, seeing as they have no Pokémon below 2 ft or unevolved, Jessie tells them to use Mime Jr., James hastily disagrees but has no choice. Jessie confront Marilyn and tells her she wants to battle and shows Mime Jr. to her, Marilyn however disagrees that it's cute crushing Mime Jr. feelings. Soon, James is comforting his devastated Pokémon while Jessie and Meowth work on the plan some more.
Brock tells Marilyn that he wants to battle her and says that she can pick the Pokémon she battles, allowing her to choose from Sudowoodo and Croagunk. Marilyn doesn't want to battle either of them because they aren't cute and asks Brock if he has another Pokémon. Brock releases Happiny and Marilyn wants to battle her, Brock accepts but as long as Sudowoodo and Croagunk battle too. Marilyn agrees so a 3 on 3 battle it is. Then James enters disguised as a Pokémon Battle referee offering his services and Marilyn, not realizing this is a little too convenient, asks him to officiate the battle.
After James announce the rules, Marilyn and Brock sends out Cherubi and Sudowoodo, Sudowoodo starts with Double-Edge which scores a direct hit, making Cherubi fall down dramatically. Marilyn however ignores the fact it hit and remarks on how Cherubi took the hit, causing Brock to scold her some more. Brock orders Sudowoodo to use Mimic, causing it to fall down dramatically too. Brock then tells Sudowoodo to use Fake Tears and Sudowoodo is soon sobbing on the floor. This causes Marilyn to start realizing the true battle strength of Pokémon. Wanting to move things along so he can see what other Pokémon Marilyn has, James declares the round as a tie as the two Trainers return their Pokémon to their Poké Balls.
Brock sends out Croagunk while Marilyn sends out Chingling, and the battle restarts. Croagunk gains the upper hand against Chingling, this is all however an act played out by Marilyn to see Chingling take the attacks, Dawn then tells her to get to the point with Marilyn hastily obeying. Marilyn orders Chingling to use Growl along with Confusion and Croagunk is almost knocked out. Brock isn't willing to give up and encourages Croagunk to get up, and not wanting to let Brock down it does and uses Brick Break, defeating Chingling. Brock tells how any Pokémon can be valiant regardless of their looks, unless the Trainer bonds with their Pokémon. The two then return their Pokémon, with Brock congratulating Croagunk on an excellent battle.
With the lesson taught by Brock, she switches a Poké Ball containing a cute Pokémon for another Pokémon, which her friends mocked her for thinking it was her cutest Pokémon and thus changed her team to fit their perception. She then sends it out revealing it to be a Shellder, shocking Meowth and Jessie who are peeking from outside. Brock sends out Happiny, however Jessie and Meowth interrupts and tells Marilyn how disappointed they are with Shellder, then James starts to go into Marilyn's bag and steal two Poké Balls contain Cherubi and Chingling, angering Marilyn who orders Shellder to use Brine to catapult itself to Team Rocket. After being hit by Shellder and dropping the two balls, Marilyn orders Shellder to use Ice Beam causing Team Rocket to be frozen rock solid, Happiny uses Pound to send Team Rocket blasting off.
At the end of the day, Dawn receives the package from her mother. Inside is some clothing and a letter from Johanna telling Dawn that as Snowpoint City is very cold she has sent some winter clothing for her, Ash and Brock. Ash and Brock receive very snazzy thick blue jackets while Dawn receives a gorgeous pink coat, new boots and a scarf. Marilyn remarks on how great they look, and now ready to brave the cold weather the gang prepare to head into Snowpoint City so Ash can battle for his seventh Sinnoh Gym Badge.
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Xatu
- A new eyecatch makes its debut in this episode. It features Brock, marking his first time being at the center of an eyecatch.
- Dawn's winter clothing resembles the clothing worn by her game counterpart in Pokémon Platinum (her hair clips and hat are different), while the jackets worn by Ash and Brock resemble those worn by Lucas.
- Ambipom was not removed from the opening despite leaving the main cast in the previous episode.
- This is the first time Sudowoodo has used Fake Tears since its evolution 111 episodes ago.
- This is the final episode to be aired solely in a 4:3 aspect ratio in the dub. Starting with the following episode, the dub would adopt the aspect ratio change and high-definition presentation first seen in the original Japanese version with The Lonely Snover!; however, after just five episodes Cartoon Network started to become inconsistent with the aspect ratio, switching between 4:3 and 16:9 every few episodes, though high-definition presentations were maintained in all cases.
- Team Rocket doesn't recite their motto in this episode.
- When Dawn was holding the box of clothes and walking toward the benches, Piplup was nowhere to be seen. However, when the screen zoomed to the box and bench, Piplup is seen near the box.
- When Dawn's Buneary and Cherubi were battling, Cherubi didn't have to charge up when using SolarBeam.
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In the course of a post yesterday on Peyton Manning and Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Adam Gase having their brains picked on the no-huddle offense by Nick Saban during a recent visit to Tuscaloosa, we mentioned in passing, as noted by our redheaded stepmothers over at PFT, that the confab may have been in violation of the NFL's Collective Bargaining Agreement.
For its part, the NFL is looking into whether or not Manning and Gase violated the portion of the CBA which prohibits coaches from meeting with players prior to the start of their team's offseason workouts (the Broncos began their offseason program Monday, after the visits took place). For his part, Saban is stunned that an NFL issue may have arisen out of what's sounding like an impromptu get-together, ensuring that he stressed that Manning and his coach were never in the same room discussing football during their overlapping time in Tuscaloosa.
From an interview Saban did with the Denver Post after the situation blew up:
"I'm like shocked that anybody would think someone did anything wrong on their part," Saban said by phone Friday night. "I never met with Adam. When I talked with him I talked about his family. Peyton, we talked an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. Adam had been talking to our assistant coaches. I never talked with Adam about football."
Asked specifically if Manning and Gase were in a meeting at the same time, Saban said, "Only to say hello and b.s. with each other. Adam came Monday and talked to the offensive coaches and some of the defensive coaches. I know he talked with Kirby (Smart, the Crimson Tide's defensive coordinator). He and I just visited casually. We didn't talk football. Adam was with me through two different college programs (at Michigan State and LSU)."
Saban firmly stated that Manning and Gase did not arrive together; in fact, the coach had been then there "for a couple days" prior to the player's arrival.
Because of Manning's proficiency in operating the no-huddle offense, the Alabama head coach and Denver Broncos quarterbacks spent a couple of hours one day — without Gase present — going over what defenses are problematic for that type of offense.
"And Peyton," Saban said, "we were just talking ball. We talked about particular defenses that give us trouble with the no-huddle. Things like that."
Given how the situation exploded, Saban took the opportunity to intimate an "ass out of you and me" joke when explaining the cause of the explosion.
"I was asked about their visit at my coach's clinic press conference but I never said we sat down together. Because we didn't. That's what happens when people assume."


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By Swanson, James L.
New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt James L. Swanson creates an adaptation for young people of his adult book Bloody Crimes, a suspense-filled thriller that sheds light on two fallen leaders of the North and South. One man, President Lincoln, assassinated, on his way to ...the grave. Another man, the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, on the run, soon to be sent to prison. Their actions forever changed the history of a nation. On the morning of April 2, 1865, Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Lincoln's murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed the nation. His final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard a special train that would carry him home to Springfield, Illinois. Along the way, more than a million Americans looked upon their martyr's face, and several million watched the funeral train roll by. It was the most magnificent funeral pageant in American history. James L. Swanson captures the riveting stories of these two influential men as they made their last journeys through the bloody landscape of a wounded nation.Read more
James Swanson is the Edgar Award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Manhunt and its sequel, Bloody Crimes.
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January 24, 2008
Release #08-174
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Big Wooden Blocks and Jumbo Wooden Train Sets
Units: About 15,000
Retailer: Christmas Tree Shops, of South Yarmouth, Mass.
Manufacturer: First Learning Company Ltd., of Hong Kong
Hazard: Surface paint on some pieces of the toys contains excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
Description: The Big Wooden Blocks contain 30 or 60 colorful block pieces in 11 geometric shapes. The Jumbo Wooden Train Sets contain 70 wooden pieces including trees, stop and railroad crossing signs, a red wooden engine and green train cars. The following style numbers and UPC numbers are printed on the packaging of the toys:
|Toy Description
|Style #
|Big Wooden Learning Blocks - 30 pieces
|Big Wooden Learning Blocks - 60 pieces
|70 piece Jumbo Wooden Train Sets
Manufactured in: China
Sold at: Christmas Tree Shops located in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions from October 2006 through November 2007 for between $4 and $20.
Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled toys away from children and return the toys to any Christmas Tree Shop to receive a refund.
Consumer Contact: Contact: For additional information, contact Christmas Tree Shops at (888) 287-3232 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's Web site at www.christmastreeshops.com
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
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